Events and Registrations

Dinner 6-6:30 p.m.

Program 6:30-7:30 p.m.

SELECTIONS FOR OUR 2023 — 2024 SEASON

The women’s book club meets once a month, on the first Monday. We
meet in Goewey Hall and begin our discussion at 9:30 a.m. to finish around 11 a.m.
Coffee and light refreshments are always served! Join us every month or just when
you can. For more information contact Julie Baiter at baiterj@Yahoo.com, Gussie
Haeffner at ghaeffner@comcast.net, or Caroline Ryan at herletters@aol.com

OCTOBER 5, 2023 (This first meeting has been moved to Thursday!)
Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Cross country road trip of four teen-age boys by award winning author!
Covering ten days and told from multiple points of view.

NOVEMBER 6, 2023
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women from
varied backgrounds answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley
Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes.

DECEMBER 4, 2023
The Maid by Nita Prose
A Clue-like, locked-room mystery and a heartwarming journey of the spirit of a
young girl who struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others.
Molly’s orderly life is upended the day she enters the suite of the infamous and
wealthy Charles Black, only to find him dead in his bed. Her unusual demeanor
has the police targeting her as their lead suspect. An easy read with a happy
ending.

JANUARY 8, 2024
Mrs. Queen Takes the Train by William Kuhn
Readers go into the mind of the grand matriarch of Britain’s Royal Family,
bringing us an endearing runaway Queen Elizabeth on the town—and leading us
behind the Buckingham Palace walls and into the upstairs/downstairs spaces of
England’s monarchy.

FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest
racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids
a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history.

MARCH 4, 2024
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
On July 5, 1906, scandal breaks in the small town of Cold Sassy, Georgia,
when the proprietor of the general store, E. Rucker Blakeslee, elopes with Miss
Love Simpson. He is barely three weeks a widower, and she is only half his age
and a Yankee to boot. As their marriage inspires a whirlwind of local gossip,
fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a family
scandal, and that’s where his adventures begin.

MARCH 14, 2024 ALL PARISH BOOK GROUPS’ DINNER (details forthcoming!)

APRIL 3, 2024
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope,
tracing a widow’s unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus is a gentle
reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a
future that once felt impossible.

MAY 6, 2024
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Humerous tale of women and relationships in the 60s. Laugh-out-loud funny,
shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting
characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.

The Grace Gang will not meet on Maundy Thursday, 1 April

Join fellow parishioners each week for the 5:30 p.m. Saturday service, and then join us in Gillespie Hall for fellowship, food, and fun! Enjoy appetizers on the first Saturday of the month and a pizza dinner and Bring a Friend to Church night on the second Saturday (please email srqpj@comcast.net by the Wednesday prior if you’d like to join us). Then we have appetizers on the third Saturday, a potluck dinner on the fourth Saturday, and appetizers on the fifth Saturday, if the month has one. Volunteers sign up to bring appetizers and potluck dishes. Come join us!

 

 

 

On the first Monday of the Month, the group meets in person in Gillespie Hall at 6:30 p.m. All other weeks of the month, we meet via zoom.

Dinner 6-6:30 p.m.

Program 6:30-7:30 p.m.

BOOKS AND BEYOND 2023-2024

 

SEPTEMBER 13

Island Infernos

John C. McManus

 

OCTOBER 11

Operation Delilah:A Spy Novel

Ray Knowles

 

NOVEMBER 8

The Emperor of all Maladies

Siddhartha Mukherjee

 

December13

Rising Tide

John M Barry

 

January10

The Revolutionary:Samuel Adams

Stacy Schiff

 

February 21

Sea of Glory:America’s Voyage of Discovery,

the US Exploring Expedition 1838-1842

Nathaniel Philbrick

 

March 13

The Great Air Race

John Lancaster

 

April 10

The Rickover Effect

Theodore Rockwell

 

May 8

John James Audubon:The Making of an American Woodsman

Richard Rhodes

THE US ARMY AND THE DOWNFALL OF JAPAN, 1945

September 11

To The Ends of the Earth:

The US Army and the Fall of Japan,1945

John C. McManus

 

Men’s Steak Night at Redeemer with Special Guest Nik Wallenda, 6-9 p.m., Church and Gillespie Hall. Sarasota-based Wallenda has walked a tightrope over Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, and Times Square. He is a committed Christian and author of two books. Tickets are $20. Sign up today before it sells out at RedeemerSarasota.org/Register.

Join fellow parishioners each week for the 5:30 p.m. Saturday service, and then join us in Gillespie Hall for fellowship, food, and fun! Enjoy appetizers on the first Saturday of the month and a pizza dinner and Bring a Friend to Church night on the second Saturday (please email srqpj@comcast.net by the Wednesday prior if you’d like to join us). Then we have appetizers on the third Saturday, a potluck dinner on the fourth Saturday, and appetizers on the fifth Saturday, if the month has one. Volunteers sign up to bring appetizers and potluck dishes. Come join us!

 

 

 

Featuring Key Chorale Chamber Singers, Orchestra, and Soloists. This concert features some of Bach’s secular works.

The biergarten experience includes German snacks and food with beer available from Calusa Brewing!

On the first Monday of the Month, the group meets in person in Gillespie Hall at 6:30 p.m. All other weeks of the month, we meet via zoom.

Katrina C. Wilson, author of the book War, Love and Redemption, will share her powerful story with the ladies of the parish. Wilson was born in Latvia, immigrated to the U.S., and found her passion by sharing her personal story. She is an author, speaker, retreat leader, and Bible study facilitator. In 1990, when her late husband, Fr. H. David Wilson, served as Rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Winter Park, Florida, Katrina established Baltic Outreach, which sent medical aid to Latvia.

The event begins in the church, and moves to Gillespie Hall for “bubbles and lite bites.”

 

Dinner 6-6:30 p.m.

Program 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Meeting on May 19 is in Gillespie Hall